Really an amazing game. Xenonauts captures most of the magic. I wouldn't mind a straight re-make though.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    Xenonauts 1 is good, especially with mods. Xenonauts 2 is mixed bag, still have it, but development is taking forever and campaign is not finished. Tactical combat is very similar to original, though the antifun brigade is pushing to make it harder than even TFtD and lately there was a lot of needless buffs for the aliens. Unfortunately air combat and especially air economy is completely FUBAR, made incredibly shit and unfun in the last 2 big patches.

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      If you played Long War for EW how does Xenonauts compare? I've eyed Xenonauts a few times but after spending the buckeroos to own both EW and War of the Chosen I couldn't convince myself to buy another similar game because I was afraid it would just be worse

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        Xenonauts 1 was free few times on GoG iirc, at least this is how i got it. Generally X-COM2 from Firaxis is imo best game in the entire genre, especially there is tons of mods for it.

        If you crave the original, Xenonauts 1 and 2 are closest you will get. And they are both great, just 2 is incomplete and have several problems, afaik devs did promised mod support at some point though.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      I played xenonauts for a while and i do recall feeling there was some antifun going on.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        Yeah and you should see some mods, they don't even hide the point is to be brutal. Still, could be worse, could be like RogueTech mod for Battletech where cheating is a legit selfdefence against the crazy authors.